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This poignant and thought-provoking documentary offers a unique and deeply moving insight into the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

In her documentary, Mračnikar formulates a political urgency in a personal way: What happens when your mother tongue is taken away from you?

The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.

While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.

When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.

What sounds like a case study from "The Drama of the Gifted Child" is the true story of the son of famed psychologist Alice Miller.

Cinematic memorial to the highly controversial icon of the German women's movement who helped shape feminist discourse for over 50 years.

Johanna Dohnal, icon of the Austrian women's movement and first Minister for Women's Affairs, shaped the Alpine Republic like hardly any other.

The theologian, feminist, and mystic Dorothee Sölle argued that theology is necessarily political.

Many people are familiar with Waldorf schools, but few are aware of the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, who in 1919 established them.

Already in 18th century Germany, early Romanticism developed a spiritual worldview that many today seek in Far Eastern spirituality.

This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.

This film illuminates the poetic-mystical side of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the UN Blue Helmet missions Dag Hammarskjöld.

A cinematic journey into the biography of the psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1875−1961) and into his powerful world of myths, dreams and symbols.

What God did Bach believe in and what was the nature of his spirituality? Did it transcend the confines of his Protestant upbringing?

The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".

Rainer Maria Rilke was not only one of the greatest German poets, but also a spiritual seeker who walked his very own path.

The film clarifies - according to Claude Lévi-Strauss - the "wild thinking" of indigenous cultures based on masks, cult objects, and rituals.

Young people from the former border region use smartphones to film stories from their personal environment about the topic of German division.

Victims of the repressive system in the former East German state give powerful testimony about the cruetly of the dehumanizing regime.

Contemporary witnesses from several European countries provide impressive insights into how the Iron Curtain shaped life across the continent.

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.

The statements of former inmates of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison and former Stasi employees are contrasted here.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.

A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.

Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

This ambitious directorial debut chronicles lesbian lifestyles and social networking in Vienna in the 1950s and 60s.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.

The Wehrmacht massacre at Oradour in 1944, filmed with Philppe Noiret and Romy Schneider in 1975. Hated by the German critics, loved by the French.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

A snapshot of the multifaceted life in the megapolis Moscow, with the focus on lesbians and gays who take to the streets for their rights.

A single decision can change the rest of your life - a film about what could have been.

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

During the cold war, West Germany hid its institutionalized human rights abuse in residential care facilities.

Masao Adachi, born in 1939, is a well-known Japanese scriptwriter and director who in 1974 joined the ‘Japanese Red Army’.

A film about funny and serious games, therapies of re- and self-re-education as well as the history of ideas of the permanent revolution.

What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

The great adventure of little Duke Ernest.

At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.

A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.

In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.

From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.

Multifaceted portrait of the composer and music critic Walter Arlen, who musically processed the horrors of the Nazi era.

This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.

A filmmaker discovers evidence of a Wehrmacht massacre in Italy in his grandfather's estate and investigates the case himself.

Portrait of five female Viennese artists, who in their pioneering role have left their mark on contemporary art.

The film is about love and hate, about right and wrong words. At its centre are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who met in post-war Vienna.

Settle into the tranquility of a Benedictine monastery.

The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.

In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.

An attempt to come to terms with the NSU's incomparable series of murders from the perspective of the victims' relatives.

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.

The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.

A personal documentary and biography about the history of a royal family in the unusual African country of Botswana.

A stroll through the bizarre tapestry of what was once West Berlin - a city riddled with empty lots and free space and surrounded by a wall.

How a Holocaust survivor and Dürckheim student became a pioneer of Zen Buddhism in Ecuador.

Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.

The ambassador of the state of Arcadia, occupies land and declares this occupied area to be Arcadian territory. Is this even legal?

An historian who survived the concentration camps, Otto Dov Kulka grants insights into his long-hidden world of thoughts.

Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.

Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the ...

Beckermann's subjects offer a dramatic range of candid opinions about Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, the intifada, religion, and the economy.

THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY is Ruth Beckermann's meta-film - an analysis of her own cinematic works, a kind of progress report.

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.

Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the diverse Jewish population the Red Vienna labor movement and the rise of Austrofascism.

This captivating film shows the less-knon sides of the Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, aka Empress Sissi on her travels to Egypt in 1885 and 1891.

A school class visits the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Buckle up in the bus, go to the toilet, a birthday song for Anja.

In THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old photographer Erich Lessing.

Cinematographer Michael Schindegger finally meets the neighbors in his own apartment building at Nr. 7 on a street in Vienna's second district.

An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)

At the centre of the experimental film-collage TESTSTAND 7 is the V-2 rocket, the so-called “Wunderwaffe” (wonder weapon) developed by the Nazis.